News
Research team host webinar on the impact of the pandemic on peer-support groups
The research team hosted a webinar, entitled Re-Connecting Our Lives: How people with learning disabilities are getting back to building community lives in the wake of the pandemic, on 23rd Novembe...
Activities Toolkit
We are pleased to launch the Activities Toolkit, a resource comprising 80 practical and meaningful activities for people with learning disabilities to do individually, with their peers...
Project Report
Project Report (Web / Screen Version) PDF (1.6 MB)
Project Report (Print Version) PDF (7.5 MB)
COVID-19 has been a devastating experience for many people who use so...
Data Archive
We have now created an online archive of data from the Self-build Social Care research project.
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) seek to make data from its projects ...
Striking a balance for a new social care future
I smiled when I first saw the Social Care Future gathering being advertised. After spending the last two years listening to the experiences of people with learning disabilities and tho...
Taking the project to college
I welcome every chance I can get to speak with people working in social care, particularly the next generation of people who are still passionate about making a change. This can sometimes ...
Visualizing belonging: Collage, cake and photography
We have just had a fantastic day with members of one of the Scottish advisory groups making collage and talking about what it feels like to belong, what experiences people have had of feel...
Impact event round table: The role of organisations
In the afternoon of our impact event we focused on the role of organisations. Working in their table groups, our attendees were given profiles of three people with learning disabilitie...
Impact event discussion
Our impact event generated some great round table discussions, and key thoughts were noted and displayed for everyone to view over lunch and coffee breaks.
Start with th...
Impact event feedback
We had lots of great feedback from our Impact Event at Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre in London.
Mel took on the task of 'unscrunching' and sorting all the feedback sheets af...
Self-Building Our Lives: The research team reflect on our impact event
13th November 2019
Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre, London
It was a busy and fascinating day, with findings from the research study, stories from participants, animated disc...
London Event
Our main research impact event takes place at the Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre in London on Wednesday 13th November.
The research team will be co-presenting with adults with le...
Filming completed!
Over the last few weeks, we have been busy working with film-makers Helen and Kamal on location in three of our case study areas in Scotland and England.
We followed three people w...
Planning our Research Outputs
An important part of the Self-build Social Care project is reporting our findings, and whilst we are some way off this stage, we have started to plan how we are going to do this.
The member...
